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The nuclear clock achieved a relative precision of approximately 10 to the power of minus 15, equivalent to an error of roughly one second over 30 million years.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Jacob Tremblay embodies a young Kaczynski almost exactly as I have imagined him, minus the smiling and the forging of his mother’s signature.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Wealth is measured as a household’s assets, like stocks and home equity, minus their liabilities, like mortgages and credit-card debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
They're potentially less likely to catch fire and should also work in a wider range of temperatures, even down to lows of minus 40C, external.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
He lifted the receiver and spoke into the mouthpiece: “It is now zero minus twenty minutes.”
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
Ponderously disjointed, unnecessarily long, and emotionally distant are its minuses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The net effect of these pluses and minuses is unknown.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
That’s a slight pullback from March, and the underlying data had both pluses and minuses.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
So, as an introvert, what are the pluses and minuses there?
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2025
Who even cared about the minuses on his old conduct grades by now?
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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